| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the. /tenour of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him...select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in \j Hierocles, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1825 - 936 pages
...real power is shewn in the progress of the fable, and the tenor of the dialogue — and that be who tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Ilierocles, who, when be offered bis bouse to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. Though... | |
| Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the tenour of his dialogue: and he that tries to recommend him by...sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. . : J * ...•! It will not easily be imagined how much Shakspeare excels in accommodating his sentiments... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 576 pages
...of particular passages, but by the progress of the fable and the tenour of his dialogue ; and that he that tries to recommend him by select quotations...sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen.'' Dr. Farmer has ascribed Titus Andronicas to Kyd, and placed it on a level with Locrine ; but it appears... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 572 pages
...tenonr of his dialogue ; and that he that tries to recommend him by select quotations will succeed Jike the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his...sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen." Dr. Farmer has ascribed Titus Andronicas to Kyd, and placed it on a level with Locrine ; but it appears... | |
| sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 pages
...Shakspeare, that to attempt to recommend him by select extracts would be but to follow the example of the pedant in Hierocles. who, when he offered his...sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. Many of the passages in it form matter of continual quotation for their eloquence ; and few of its... | |
| Shakespeare club Sheffield - 1829 - 190 pages
...not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him...pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house for sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. »###**##*# " This, therefore, is the praise... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 798 pages
...he that tries to recommend him, by select quotatic *s, will succeed like the pedant in II ˇerodes, LMLNLOL M4K5K K7K8K M O$M P PHL P P<M M LxPyP P OSN M O1LLKMKNK OPKQKRK MTKFMVK*L+L, Upon every other stage the universal ˇwent is love, by whose power all good aud evil is distributed,... | |
| George Smeeton - Biography - 1830 - 278 pages
...splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the tenor of his dialogue ; and ho that tries to recommend him by select quotations,...sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. ' Upon every other stage the universal agent is love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed,... | |
| George Smeeton - Biography - 1830 - 282 pages
...not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the tenor of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him...like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered iiis house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. ' Upon every otfcer stage the universal... | |
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